A Secure Career

     One of the many reasons nursing is a good career choice is it will always be needed.  Everybody wants to be needed, because it gives one's life purpose and meaning.  Unfortunately, people are always going to need care to recover or simply ease their pain.

     The growth rate for R.N.'s is expected to be much faster than average professions. Projections predict the most openings of any profession according to this popular website http://www.discovernursing.com/job-opportunities

  Registered Nurses salaries vary depending on the level of training they receive, position held, and region they practice in.  Salaries range from the low of $43,000 to $92,000.("Discover Nursing")

     For me the higher than average salary has to be secondary to the privilege of giving care to another human being as I would hope it would be for anyone entering this profession.  Salary is the draw it takes to get someone interested in nursing and then it steals your heart. Just like it did with me.

 

Works Cited

Bureau of Labor Statistic's Occupational Outlook Handbook. United States Department of Labor.         2010-11 Edition. Web. 17 Sept. 2011.

Donaldson, Robert M., Jr., Kathleen S. Lundgren, and Howard M. Spiro. The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions; Pathways to Medicine in the 21^st Century. New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2003. Print

Swanson, Barbara Mardinly. VGM Professional Career Series; Careers in Health Care.

NTC/Contemporary Publishing Group, 2000. Print

Discover Nursing. com. Johnson and Johnson Services, Inc. 2002-2009 Web. 19 November 2011.